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...fingerprints as soon as he moved on to touch the next thing. The clean-up staff was thoroughly decent about the situation, however, and no less friendly than the G.M. lawyers who undoubtedly waited in the wings to take care of sonny if he caught his hand in a Buick door...
...increasing wealth came in little ways. As the biggest commodity speculator in years, he was doing fine. First the gravel driveway at his small bungalow was blacktopped, then a curb was added-and then the whole thing was refinished in crushed brick. On the driveway, instead of a Buick there appeared a Cadillac, then a second one-with chauffeur to boot. Three years ago Commodity Speculator Butler bought himself a $300.000 house, added a swimming pool with cabanas; he bought a $150,000 yacht, used it as an office...
...President Gillen's picture over the caption "There is more to life than Cadillacs," the change in Huntington Beach, Calif. from shanty town to "Cadillac Lane," and the reference by the reviewer of John P. Marquand's new novel to the "middle-classic double play: Ford to Buick to Cadillac...
...first to be offered in a variety of shiny colors (dark blue, pastel green, beige light blue), instead of the usual flat drabs of other Soviet cars, like the Pobeda (built along the lines of an undersized 1939 Ford) and the ZIM (which looks like an elderly Buick). The Volga is also the first to offer such Western frivolities as the automatic shift, one-piece windshield and built-in lubrication system* operated by pushing a pedal. A four-cylinder , 75-h.p., five-passenger sedan, the Volga's design is almost a direct crib of Raymond Loewy...
...typical Marquand hero is usually caught in the middle-classic double play: Ford to Buick to Cadillac. But where The Late George Apley had a lot of endearing old charms and H. M. Pulham, Esq. wore his stuffiness with a certain dignity, Willis Wayde comes closer to being a thorough s.o.b. than any previous Marquand hero...